read pages 347 to 349 of Cuban Missile Crisis.
1. Why was Cuba so important to the United States?
Americans owned most of the businesses on the island and they had a huge naval base there.
2. Why do you think the Americans chose to equip Cuban exiles rather than invading themselves?
I don't think that they wanted to lose any of their own men and maybe they even knew that they couldn't take Castro.
3. Why did the invasion fail?
The invasion failed because Castro had wayy more men than what Kennedy had sent over and they had they had tanks as well as modern weapons.
4. Compare Source 17 on page 345 (in the Arms Race.pdf reading) with Source 24 on page 348. Describe how the Soviet Union missiles on Cuba changed the Cold War balance of power.
It seems like the U.S. have the power because now the Soviet Union is carrying the missiles over to them?
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